5 video games with the biggest open worlds in 2022

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Open-world video games offer players with a large sandbox to play around in, allowing them to traverse long distances and complete quests all around the map. Exploration is one of the key components of such video games, which in turn rewards the player with items, and sometimes even hidden loot for finding hard-to-access areas.

These video game worlds immerse players for long periods, giving them tons of stuff to do and play around in. They will often lose track of time, as they move from point A to point B, while being distracted by a side objective or an attacking enemy doing their best to kill them.

2022 has seen a lot of video game releases so far, letting players have more than enough time to explore fictional/virtual worlds inside their large screen set-ups, nearly coming close to the intricacies of the real world. Here are five of the largest open-world video games that players should try out.

Note: This article reflects the writer's opinion.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus is the latest mainstream title in the franchise, and offers players a slightly different take. Developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo, it was released in January 2022, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.

In this game. the player's character/trainer is sent back in time to the Hisui region, which will later be known as the Sinnoh region. Various new settlers are now coming to this new region, and most of the land is open, sparse, and dotted with Pokemon.

The map is divided into five sub regions between which players can travel to and from. Each location has many campsites as well as a few settlements where players can fast travel to at any time. While normal Pokemon are scattered about the map, there are some tougher enemies known as Alpha